To whom do you pray? Is it the distant, powerful Ultimate Reality? Or is it to the personal, intimate god? Anne Lamott starts her prayers with "Hi." Read the review of her book Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers to find out more. Here is one of her more relateable prayes.

Hi, God.I am just a mess.It is all hopeless.What else is new?I would be sick of me, if I were You, but Miraculously You are not.I know I have no control over other people’s Lives, and I hate this. Yet I believe that if I Accept this and surrender, You will meet me Wherever I am.Wow. Can this be true? If so, how is this Afternoon – say, two-ish?Thank You in advance for Your company and Blessings.You have never once let me down.Amen.

This series of photos of mothers and their newborns is so different from the artistic, stylized newborn photos we've come to expect. While the infants are adorably in the pictures, the focus remains on the mothers. I love that it shows the full rainbow of feelings she experiences: pride, exhaustion, fear, joy, love, hope, sadness. The artist, Jenny Lewis, told Buzzfeed that she “sought to capture that moment after childbirth and show that women are still themselves after delivery.” I think she did that and more.